Stories: Economy & Business
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America’s Half-Forgotten Islands
UMAN, FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA, Fall 1999 -- Sixty years ago, residents of this small tropical island had access to electricity, running water, paved roads, good ...
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Pacific Islands Renegotiate U.S. Payments
YAP, FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA, Fall 1999 -- Washington's hands-off approach to the grant payments it has sent to the Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia ...
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Japanese ‘Ghost Fleet’ Sinking - Again
CHUUK, FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA, Fall 1999 -- Beneath the bright azure surface of Truk Lagoon, the divers slowly descend into the deepening blue. After 50 feet or so, ...
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‘Jaws’: The New Cause of the Seas
HONOLULU, Fall 1999 -- Hawaii's commercial fishermen have long plied the vast Pacific Ocean in search of swordfish and tuna - the large offshore fish that supply succulent ...
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Islands Seek More Pay for Missile Tests
Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, Fall 1999 -- From the air, you'd never guess that Kwajalein Atoll was of considerable strategic significance to the United States. This remote ...
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South Pacific Battles for Y2K Bragging Rights
MAJURO, Marshall Islands, Fall 1999 -- In the uttermost reaches of the Pacific, four nations are jostling to be first to welcome the year 2000. They're squaring off in a kind of ...
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Casualties of War
SARAJEVO Spring, 1999 -- It's the morning after NATO's first bombs fall on Yugoslavia, and Open Broadcasting Network (OBN) anchor Duska Jurisic is talking bluntly to me about her ...
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Panama and Guyana
WBEZ News correspondent and former Worldview producer Edie Rubinowitz received an assignment that took her away from WBEZ’s Navy Pier studios. She traveled through ...
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Pinching Pennies for a Market Edge
Fall, 1998 -- Lorenzo Wiese-Hansen watches his salmon on a video screen as he tosses food pellets, which sink into the water like pennies. As soon as the salmon stop nibbling, he ...
